Abstract
Long works of prose fiction have been written from classical antiquity to the present; but the English novel is widely accepted as a genre important elements of which one does not see until the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It is also understood to be a genre not fully recognizable until Defoe, Richardson and Fielding each provided a unique model of the form. Though at one level accurate, this simple view needs heavy qualification because the shape of the novel and its origins are both complicated matters. For a solid understanding of the issues that comprise this difficult subject, one must read the relevant literature, important works of which I cite below. Here I have space enough only for a glance at some of the problems.KeywordsMoral PurposeChief InterestHappy MarriageGood MarriageLiterary LifeThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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